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April is National Financial Literacy Month in the United States and a time to reflect on the state of financial literacy today and what can be done to improve it. In particular, where should the financial services industry direct its resources in strengthening financial literacy in the United States and throughout the world?
But first, what is financial literacy and where does it stand today?
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The U.S. economy seems exuberant-market indices are reaching new heights, labor markets remain strong, and the Federal Reserve might raise interest rates soon. Abroad, economic bright spots are appearing in Japan, Europe, and elsewhere. Yet global uncertainty remains high-especially given the possible economic implications of the broad policy shifts signaled by the new U.S. administration.
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Private equity returns have been excellent versus other asset classes in recent years. Investors continue to allocate additional money to private equity seeking higher returns for their total portfolio. What will this mean for future expected returns for the private equity asset class?
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How can you tell if a company is undervalued or overvalued? Is the current stock price the only measure of value? Why would one company command a higher or lower premium than its direct competitor? This course takes a practical, tangible, and non-theoretical approach to examining how corporations are valued and the major analytical tools that are used. Go beyond the academic theory of financial ratios and apply fundamental analysis and real-world methods of evaluating a company's intrinsic value.
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Bloomberg
Regulators’ effort to stamp out risk in the $2.6 trillion U.S. money-fund industry is creating unintended ripple effects across financial markets, with far-reaching consequences for companies and investors.
Far less cash than anticipated has returned to the higher-yielding slice of the money-fund world, after the overhaul that took effect in October led to a $1 trillion exodus from what are known as prime funds.
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The Center for Strategic Finance at the Stuart School of Business at Illinois Tech focuses on strategy in financial markets as a new discipline, building upon theoretical concepts drawn from traditional finance, strategic management, game theory, and computer science. Learn more.
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WWTW-TV
In an effort to curb violence, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has directed resources to expand mentoring programs for teenagers enrolled in Chicago Public Schools. But now a new effort is targeting young men and women who aren’t in school and who are unemployed.
These so-called “opportunity youth” are getting a lot of attention. Research from the University of Illinois at Chicago Great Cities Institute says there are 58,000 disconnected youth ages 16 to 24 who have been out of school and out of work in Chicago.
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Chicago Tribune
A few years after graduating from college, Grant Sabatier was unemployed, broke and living with his parents.
Hungry for a burrito one afternoon, the 20-something checked his account balance and learned that he had $2.26 in the bank. The low point served as a wake-up call for Sabatier, who took an image of his balance and set a goal of saving so much money that he could retire early if he wanted to.
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The Bond Buyer
Chicago expects the veto-proof passage by early April of state legislation to save its municipal and laborers' pension funds from insolvency, the city's finance chief told investors Monday.
"We are pretty confident or optimistic ... we would have enough votes to override," chief financial officer Carole Brown said in an investor call following Gov. Bruce Rauner's Friday veto of the original legislation written to put in place revised funding formulas for two funds.
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Qatari Sheikh Faisal bin Qassim Al Thani was “scared to death” to visit Chicago. In 2012, the sheikh, with a net worth of $2.4B, was drawn to investment opportunities in Chicago real estate, but even from his home 7,000 miles away he grimaced when watching the news on television. Like so many others, he was deeply troubled by vivid news reports on CNN and Sky News depicting tragic shootings of children and violent gang turf wars.
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Crain's Chicago Business
New York's big exchanges are attacking the Box Options Exchange plan for a new trading floor in Chicago, but Box's CEO isn't backing down.
Last week, the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, which operate their own options exchanges, sent letters to the Securities & Exchange Commission mainly complaining that Box's proposal wasn't clear enough. While Nasdaq said it didn't oppose or support the Box idea, the New York Stock Exchange, a unit of IntercontinentalExchange, essentially gave it a thumbs-down.
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Crain's Chicago Business
Gov. Bruce Rauner recently gave Mayor Rahm Emanuel good reason to be ticked off with him. Actually, he gave everyone who has even a passing interest in Chicago's fiscal well-being good reason to be ticked off with him. Rauner's offense: He vetoed legislation that would have enabled the city to pump critically needed money into two municipal pension funds nearing insolvency. Without this infusion, the funds will fall further into arrears, meaning the bill will be that much bigger when it's paid off.
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